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International Holocaust Remembrance Day

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945, an attempt to implement its "final solution" to the Jewish question. 27 January was chosen to commemorate the date when the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army in 1945.

There are a number of Holocaust memorial days, but not all of them are on the same day.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Annual

The day remembers the killing of six million Jews, two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population, and millions of others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.[1][2] It was designated by United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005.[3] The resolution came after a special session was held earlier that year on 24 January to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the end of the Holocaust.[4][5][6][7]


Many countries have instituted their own Holocaust memorial days. Many, such as the UK's Holocaust Memorial Day, also fall on 27 January, while others, such as Israel's Yom HaShoah, are observed at other times of the year.

(United States)

Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust

European Day of the Righteous

Holocaust memorial days

Holocaust Memorial Day (UK)

International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance

(Romania)

National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust

United Nations Holocaust Memorial

Liberation (Holocaust memorial)

World Holocaust Forum

(April or May)

Yom HaShoah

(2 August)

Roma Holocaust Memorial Day

(24 April)

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day

(25 March)

Bengali Genocide Remembrance Day

(4th Saturday of November)

Holodomor Memorial Day

(7 April)

International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide

marking the start of the annual official mourning period for the victims of the Rwandan genocide (7 April)

Kwibuka

(20 May)

National Day of Remembrance (Cambodia)

Pontian Remembrance Day (May 19)

Greek Genocide

United Nations International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime (9 December)

on the Yad Vashem website

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum website

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

The United Nations' International Holocaust Remembrance Day page

Statement by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on IHRD

for the United Nations' International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust

U.N. Events, Messages, & More